Physical description; xi, 441 p., [8] p. of plates : illus., maps ; 24 cm. (hbk). Subjects; Haig, Douglas, 1861-1928, 1st Earl Haig. Great Britain. Army - Biography.

Douglas Haig, 1861-1928

Science & Math

De Groot, Gerard J.

Technology

Unwin Hyman

The First World War (Twentieth-Century Wars)

This book explains the First World War in a manner the lay person can understand, and the expert will still find intriguing. It covers a broad canvas, but does so with great economy. The origins of the war, both diplomatic and social, are discussed in a particularly illuminating fashion. The reader is then taken through the major battles on the Eastern and Western Fronts, and is in the process given insight into the eventual Allied victory. The war at sea, on the home front and in distant theatres is also carefully examined. There is, in addition, a worm's eye view of the conflict - the war as it was experienced by the men in the trenches.The book provides a wonderfully clear and sustaining introduction to a conflict usually mired in confusion. The strong narrative drive and lively style make it an easy and enjoyable read. Students will find the book a very good starting point for a study of the war, and lay readers will simply enjoy the clarity and drama it brings to a war which continues to intrigue and torment.

History

Military

St Martins Pr

Douglas Haig, 1861–1928 (Routledge Library Editions: Historical Security)

Europe

Routledge

An analytical survey of Britain in the era of the Great War (focusing particularly on the period 1907-1922), which questions the common assumption that, because the war had a devastating impact on the British people, its social consequences must therefore have been equally apocalyptic and lasting. Dr. De Groot argues that prewar social structures and attitudes proved surprisingly resilient, and the innate conservatism of all classes in Britain ensured that postwar Britain was as little changed as new economic and technological circumstances allowed. There is more to the book, however, than its impressively argued thesis: rich with detail of life and culture from all levels of British society, this is a powerful and moving portrait of a nation under stress.

Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War

Longman

Because we assume momentous events must have momentous consequences, we too easily accept the conventional wisdom that the Great War of 1914-18 shook British society to its foundations, leaving nothing of the prewar world intact. We take it for granted that, along with a generation of its finest young men, the nation's old ways of life and thought perished in the mud of Flanders. Recent historiography, however, has shown a new sensitivity to the power of tradition in British society, and its ability to contain and neutralise radical social change. Now, in this impressive study - the first major treatment of the theme - Gerard DeGroot examines every aspect of society in the period (c. 1907-22) to understand what actually happened to the people of Britain during and after the trial by fire. As well as incorporating the latest scholarship, he makes rich, and often very moving, use of primary sources - newspapers, poetry (both high and low), literature, memoirs and letters - to illuminate the attitudes of society at all its levels, not merely the elite and the articulate. He reveals the extent to which the dominant social force in Britain during the war was not change but continuity. The most urgent wish of most people for the postwar world was, poignantly, that life should return to the way it had been - and to a quite astonishing extent it did, despite the tide of technological change flowing towards a different world. It was the vacuum cleaner and the internal combustion engine that transformed Britain in the early twentieth century, not the sorrows, sacrifices and opportunities of the Great War.

Blighty: British Society in an Era of Great War

DEGROOT

A Noble Cause?: America and the Vietnam War

Few wars have had such a deep impact on the American people than the Vietnam War.Gerard de Groot's clear-eyed treatment covers the military events, the political and strategic contexts, as well as the social and cultural impact of the war. It's a powerful study which offers fresh insights into the communist revolution and military tactics, the flaws in US strategy and the legacy of the war both for Vietnam and America. An important new study on a subject often masked by sentiment and myth.

Americas

Pearson

Ronald Reagan, during his 1980 presidential campaign, described the Vietnam War as a 'noble cause' and demonstrated that Vietnam is not just a war, but an idea, molded by cranks and demagogues to suit their political imperative. The war has become a morality tale through which to peddle a particular vision of America. In an effort to give the reader an unbiased view of why the war was fought, how it was lost and what effect it has had, Gerard De Groot has provided an analytical work, but with strong narrative drive, which offers a clear eyed treatment of themes which have frequently been masked by sentiment or myth. 
The military events, the political and strategic contexts, and the social and cultural impact of the Vietnam War are all brought together in this single, compellingly readable study. As well as breadth and inclusiveness, the author has new things to say on -- the nature of the communist revolution and the communist way of war; the flaws in US Strategy and tactics; how these flaws affected the soldier on the ground; and the legacy of the war for Vietnam and America alike.

Longman Pub. Group

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Douglas Haig, 1861-1928

The First World War (Twentieth-Century Wars)

Douglas Haig, 1861–1928 (Routledge Library Editions: Historical Security)

Douglas Haig, 1861–1928 (Routledge Library Editions: Historical Security)

Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War

Blighty: British Society in an Era of Great War

A Noble Cause?: America and the Vietnam War

A Noble Cause?: America and the Vietnam War